The Breakaways
Dec. 9th, 2019 07:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraThe Breakaways, Cathy G. Johnson. Sweet middlegrade comic about a terrible girls' soccer team and the various middle-school dramas they have going on. Appealing character designs, and it was really fun to read a sports story where everyone decides that, no, sports really do suck. My 5th grader liked it too.
Sunny Rolls the Dice, Jennifer Holm and Matthew Holm. Apparently when Jennifer Holm was a kid in the 70s, she played D&D, and so this is a middlegrade comic about a girl who wants to play D&D with the boys but is also exploring trying to be girl-cool with her girl friends. In *my* childhood experience D&D was Boys Only until I got to college so I ended up having some complicated feelings about this one - I would have loved to have the fucking *option* of hanging out with the boys, you know? (Late in high school I was finally enough of an honorary boy for a couple of movie marathons, or the boys were finally secure enough that they could have a girl in the room without it being a big deal, not sure which...) Anyways, Junie's been reading this series and I picked up this one because I saw D&D in the blurb. It was cute.
Sunny Rolls the Dice, Jennifer Holm and Matthew Holm. Apparently when Jennifer Holm was a kid in the 70s, she played D&D, and so this is a middlegrade comic about a girl who wants to play D&D with the boys but is also exploring trying to be girl-cool with her girl friends. In *my* childhood experience D&D was Boys Only until I got to college so I ended up having some complicated feelings about this one - I would have loved to have the fucking *option* of hanging out with the boys, you know? (Late in high school I was finally enough of an honorary boy for a couple of movie marathons, or the boys were finally secure enough that they could have a girl in the room without it being a big deal, not sure which...) Anyways, Junie's been reading this series and I picked up this one because I saw D&D in the blurb. It was cute.
